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Census of Population and Housing, 1960 Public Use Sample: One-in-One-Hundred Sample (ICPSR 7756)

Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

This collection contains individual-level and 1-percent
national sample data from the 1960 Census of Population and Housing
conducted by the Census Bureau. It consists of a representative
sample of the records from the 1960 sample questionnaires. The data
are stored in 30 separate files, containing in total over two million
records, organized by state. Some files contain the sampled records
of several states while other files contain all or part of the
sample for a single state. There are two types of records stored
in the data files: one for households and one for persons. Each
household record is followed by a variable number of person records,
one for each of the household members. Data items in this collection
include the individual responses to the basic social, demographic,
and economic questions asked of the population in the 1960 Census
of Population and Housing. Data are provided on household
characteristics and features such as the number of persons in
household, number of rooms and bedrooms, and the availability of
hot and cold piped water, flush toilet, bathtub or shower, sewage
disposal, and plumbing facilities. Additional information is
provided on tenure, gross rent, year the housing structure was
built, and value and location of the structure, as well as the
presence of air conditioners, radio, telephone, and television in
the house, and ownership of an automobile. Other demographic
variables provide information on age, sex, marital status, race,
place of birth, nationality, education, occupation, employment
status, income, and veteran status. The data files were obtained
by ICPSR from the Center for Social Analysis, Columbia University.

This collection contains individual-level and 1-percent
national sample data from the 1960 Census of Population and Housing
conducted by the Census Bureau. It consists of a representative
sample of the records from the 1960 sample questionnaires. The data
are stored in 30 separate files, containing in total over two million
records, organized by state. Some files contain the sampled records
of several states while other files contain all or part of the
sample for a single state. There are two types of records stored
in the data files: one for households and one for persons. Each
household record is followed by a variable number of person records,
one for each of the household members. Data items in this collection
include the individual responses to the basic social, demographic,
and economic questions asked of the population in the 1960 Census
of Population and Housing. Data are provided on household
characteristics and features such as the number of persons in
household, number of rooms and bedrooms, and the availability of
hot and cold piped water, flush toilet, bathtub or shower, sewage
disposal, and plumbing facilities. Additional information is
provided on tenure, gross rent, year the housing structure was
built, and value and location of the structure, as well as the
presence of air conditioners, radio, telephone, and television in
the house, and ownership of an automobile. Other demographic
variables provide information on age, sex, marital status, race,
place of birth, nationality, education, occupation, employment
status, income, and veteran status. The data files were obtained
by ICPSR from the Center for Social Analysis, Columbia University.

Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Census of Population and Housing, 1960 Public Use Sample: One-in-One-Hundred Sample. ICPSR07756-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07756.v1

Universe:
About 600,000 households and group quarters segments,
and about 1,800,000 persons in the United States.

Data Type(s):
census/enumeration data

Methodology

Sample:
One sample household for every 100 households, and
persons in group quarters in the United States. Records have been
sampled on a household-by-household basis so that the characteristics
of family members may be interrelated and related to the
characteristics of the housing unit.

Data Source:

self-enumerated questionnaires

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release: 1984-06-28

Version History:

2006-01-18 File CB7756.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.